1930s Antique Bedroom Furniture

bedroom furniture

furniture intended for use in a bedroom

Furniture sets that are placed in your bedroom such as bed, dresser, chest
of drawers and nightstand. Some bedroom collections even come with an armoire,
chiffonier or storage chest. Depending on your preference, you may choose
contemporary, traditional or transitional styled bedrooms.

antique

made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful
antique French furniture"

old-timer: an elderly man

shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday"

A collectible object such as a piece of furniture or work of art that has a
high value because of its considerable age

1930s

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1930s.

thirties: the decade from 1930 to 1939

File:1930s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: Dorothea Lange's photo
of the homeless Florence Thompson show the effects of the Great Depression; Due
to the economic collapse, the farms become dry and the Dust Bowl spreads through
America; The Battle of Wuhan during the Second Sino-Japanese

Klytie Pate Studio Pottery on the
Mantle of the Great Living Hall's Fireplace at the Waller House – Fairy Hills

Located at the end of a sleepy little
cul-de-sac in the leafy north east Melburnian suburb of Fairy Hills is a
beautiful pebbledash Arts and Crafts style bungalow. Quiet and unassuming amid
its well kept gardens, this bungalow is quite significant historically as it is
the creation and home of nationally renowned husband and wife artists Christian
and Napier Waller, and is known as the Waller House. Together they designed the
house and much of its interior decoration and furnishings. Napier Waller lived
in their purpose designed home for some fifty years. What is especially
significant about the house is that both it and its contents are quite intact.
Napier Waller's studios, examples of his art, that of his two wives and his
niece, famous studio potter Klytie Pate, and items connected with his work
remain exactly as he left them. Architecturally the house design is innovative
in its internal use of space, specifically in the organisation of the studio cum
living room and displays a high degree of artistic creativity in the interior
decoration. The Waller House in Fairy Hills is so named because it was the
residence of Mervyn Napier Waller, the acclaimed artist who gained National fame
from his water colours, stained glass, mosaic works and murals and his wife
Christian, who was a distinguished artist and designer of stained glass in her
own right. In particular Napier Waller's works adorn the Melbourne Town Hall,
the Myer Emporium Mural Hall, the Victorian State Library and the Australian War
Memorial. The Waller House is a split level house designed by Napier and his
first wife Christian who intended the house to be both a home and a workplace.
For this the design was conceived to accommodate the tall studies and pieces of
the artist's work. The Waller house was built by Phillip Millsom in 1922 and the
architectural style of the house is a mixture of Interwar Arts and Crafts,
Interwar Old English and Interwar California Bungalow. The house is constructed
from reinforced concrete walls with a rough cast pebbledash finish. The roof is
steeply pitched with a prominent half timbered gable over the front entrance and
has Marseilles pattern terracotta tiles. There are small paned casement windows.
There have been several additions to the original design over the years but
these have all been sympathetic to the original design. The house is entered
from a two sided verandah into an entrance hall, panelled in Tasmanian wood.
This has stairs leading to the different levels of the house interior. In one
direction the hall leads to a main living hall which was Napier Waller's
original studio and later used as the main living room in the house. This room
has a high ceiling with casement windows, a musicians’ gallery and a broad brick
fireplace flanked by fire-dogs and bellows made by the sculptress Ola Cohn (1892
– 1964). Like many of the other rooms in the house the studio is panelled and
floored with Tasmanian hardwood and contains some of the studies for Napier
Waller's murals: “The Five Lamps of Learning; the Wise and Foolish Virgins” a
mosaic for the University of Western Australia and, “Peace After Victory” a
study painting for the State Library of Victoria. Above the panelling the
plaster walls are painted in muted colours in wood grain effect. The raftered
plaster ceiling has been painted in marble effect with gold leaf. Book shelves,
still containing the Wallers’ beautiful books, are built into the panelled
walls. Furniture in the room includes a settee with a painted back panel
featuring jousting knights, painted by Christian Waller, a leather suite and
black bean sideboards and cupboards. This furniture was designed in the nineteen
thirties by Napier Waller and by Percy Meldrum and a noted cabinet maker called
Goulman. The studio cum hall also contains many ceramic works created by studio
potter Klytie Pate who was Christian Waller’s niece and protégée. The entrance
hall leads in the other direction to a guest room, known as the “Blue Room”.
This was the idea of Napier's wife Christian and has simple built-in glass
topped furniture and Napier's murals of the “Labours of Hercules” which include
a self portrait of the artist. An alcove section of the room was constructed out
of an extension to the verandah. Stairs lead from the entrance hall to the
musicians’ gallery which has a window and overlooks the studio cum living room.
The kitchen near the studio/hall is panelled and raftered with built-in
cupboards conforming to the panelling. The ceiling is stencilled in a
fleur-de-lys design by Napier. The dining room lies to the right of the studio
cum hall and contains shoulder high panelling and raftered ceilings. It has an
angled brick corner fireplace and the walls and ceiling have the same painted
treatment as the studio cum living room. The oak dining furniture was designed
by Napier. A small den with high window, furnished with leather chairs, opens
off the dining room. Opening off the hall to the